Dry Suit and Blatter Issues

[elliptikal]

Hey everyone, have a quick question. I unfortunatly have been suffering from some prostate issues and sometimes have the erge to urinate when diving even though I eptied my blatter before the dive. I live in a cold water environment and am currently looking into buying a drysuit. I was wondering if anyone else has had similar problems.
I'm also only 29 so this was a bit of a shock to have issues like this. I know a lot of men suffer from this and was hoping a few might be able to help me out a bit.

I know this isn't the coolest post but it's something that bothers me since I love diving so much. My prostatitis has gotten better but it still bothers me at times. Been to a specialist 3 times now with little success and given the "time will heal it" speech.

Please don't laugh or make fun of the thread too much...but I understand if ya do hehe. I just need some serious advice because I'm looking into becoming an instructor.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Get yourself one of these ...

http://www.divetekadventures.com/Technical_PeeValves.htm

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[RIDIVER501]

one reason could be: immersion dieresis or the urge to pee while diving is basically caused by the water pressure on the body tricking it into thinking your bladder is full.

this could be compounding your medical state.
Worse comes to worse add some depends to your checklist. Better safe then sorry.

 

[elliptikal]

Thanks guys! I'll look into this...or I guess I'll be a "depends" man. Ah well, practice for when i'm a senior citizen =)

 

[RIDIVER501]

I haven't done a lot of research on those but isn't the depth limit 20 feet?
If you are deep then 20feet you can't generate enough pressure to force the urine down the tube, creating a potential back flow problem?? or something like that.

 

[matt_unique]

Most of my buddies use P-valves. I void literally 1 minute prior to zipping up the suit. So far this has not been an issue for me. Sorry to hear about your condition.

--Matt

 

[elliptikal]

Double Post....sorry

 

[elliptikal]

I can't see myself doin a whole lot of 20ft dives so I guess I'm going with the man diaper =)

Hey everyone, I wear diapers....that felt good.

 

[Henryville]

I haven't done a lot of research on those but isn't the depth limit 20 feet?
If you are deep then 20feet you can't generate enough pressure to force the urine down the tube, creating a potential back flow problem?? or something like that.

Uh, no. Isn't your whole body experiencing ambient pressure? In addition, many p-valves have both chambers that take care of any balancing and check valves that prevent inflow in the event of a failure (like the catheter pulling off.) Then there is usually a pee-through bolt at the outboard end that you can tighten down to stop a leak (no pun intended.) They are not depth-limiting.

 

[RIDIVER501]

Good to know. Thanks